Announcement

WoD Shaman changes

Yesterday/today started the big WoD info dump, including class changes, which can all be read on mmo-champion.com . If you don't want to know anything about it early on, don't visit the site or read what im about to post.

Do take in mind that these are the first draft that players are seeing and are most likely subject to change.

- Ancestral Awakening has been removed.- Feral Spirit no longer has the Spirit Bite ability.- Flametongue Weapon is no longer available to Restoration Shaman.- Frostbrand Weapon is now available only to Enhancement Shaman.- Greater Healing Wave has been renamed to Healing Wave.- Healing Tide Totem is now available only to Restoration Shaman.- Healing Wave has been removed.- Lava Burst now replaces Primal Strike for Elemental and Restoration Shaman.- Magma Totem is now available only to Enhancement Shaman.- Rockbiter Weapon has been removed.- Static Shock has been removed.- Stormstrike and Stormblast now deal 30% more damage when Lightning Shield is active.- Stormlash Totem has been removed. -Searing Flames has been removed.- Flametongue Weapon damage has been increased by 40%, and Lava Lash damage has been increased to 280% weapon damage (up from 140%) to compensate.- Water Shield is now available only to Restoration Shaman and replaces Lightning Shield.

* Crow Control and Diminishing Returns

- Ancestral Swiftness can no longer turn Hex into an instant-cast spell.- Earthgrab Totem now shares Diminishing Returns with all other root effects.- Maelstrom Weapon can no longer reduce the cast time of Hex.- Bug Fix: Glyph of Shamanistic Rage should no longer cause Shamanistic Rage to incorrectly dispel Unstable Affliction or Vampiric Touch that has been modified by the PvP 4-piece set bonus.

* Buffs and Debuffs The following abilities no longer apply the Weakened Blows effect:

-Shaman: Earth Shock

The following abilities now provide a 5% increase to melee, ranged, and spell Haste to all Party and Raid members (previously they only increased spelHaste).- Shaman (Enhancement): Unleashed Rage

* Class changes

- Searing Totem: Searing Bolt damage increased by 65%.- Earth Elemental deals 90% less Auto Attack damage.- Primal Earth Elemental's Pulverize ability no longer deals damage.- Unleash Flame no longer deals direct damage, but now increases the damage of the Shaman's next Fire spell by 40% (up from 30%).- Unleash Frost no longer deals direct damage, but now always snares the target by 70% (rather than only when the target is already snared by a Frost spell).- Unleash Wind no longer deals direct damage, but now increases attack speed by 60% (up from 50%).- Lightning Bolt is no longer castable while moving by default. Effects like Spiritwalker's Grace can still make the spell castable while moving.- Shamanism no longer reduces the cast time of Chain Lightning, but instead now increases the damage of Chain Lightning by 100% (up from 70%).- Wind Shear no longer affects threat.- Windfury Weapon no longer has a 3-second internal cooldown.